The wolf refuge is partnering with Purdue University’s Climate Change Research Center and People’s Brewing Co. to make conversations and information surrounding climate change issues more accessible to the public.

The series will run through the summer. The first talk begins at 6 p.m. Jeff Dukes, director of the Climate Change Research Center, is the inaugural speaker. The event is free of charge and People’s will be on hand to serve up brews.

Holly Jaycox, a Wolf Park board member and event organizer said the series will give people a reason to venture out to Wolf Park while also encouraging discourse on a pressing contemporary issue.

“It seems like a good chance to remind people Wolf Park is trying to be part of the educational picture in this community and it also gives people another reason to come out to the park,” Jaycox said.

The series will run through the summer, and, if popular, perhaps beyond that.

The Climate Change Research Center is providing speakers for the event.

Rose Filley, managing director at the research institute, said the center has roughly 85 fully engaged faculty members working on some facet of climate change research. She hopes to pull from this pool to find speakers for the Wolf Park event, although the speaker list is not finalized.

“We have a huge base of faculty we can draw from,” Filley said.

Climate change impacts nearly every facet of our lives, she added, and the talks will demonstrate this.